The literary underground: writers and the totalitarian experience, 1900-1950

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Seite 67Everybody's a bastard' (MR 199). 1926 is a year in which social reality wears the
garb of futurist nightmare; there is even an epidemic of collectivist rape. Serge
rather wildly lays the blame on Alexandra Kollontai's 'over-simplified theory of
free ...

Seite 162The first is what Brod calls Kafka's 'social conscience': His social conscience was
greatly stirred when he saw workers crippled through neglect of safety
precautions. 'How modest these men are,' he once said to me, opening his eyes
wide.

Seite 220Soukup, the Social Democrat party leader in Prague, was publishing accounts of
his trip to America at the time. Kafka was not only an avid reader of such reports
but was also familiar with an account of a trip to America by the social critic Arthur
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